Spanish
II Comprehensive Examination Review Outline
1. Listening comprehension
2. Reading comprehension
3. Culture questions based on
culture readings from chapters 1-10
4. Map questions on Central
America and South America
5. Vocabulary from chapters
1-10 including antonyms, synonyms and word bank
6. Grammar
- Reflexive pronouns
- Ser & estar
- Saber & conocer
- Preterite vs. Imperfect
- Possessive adjectives
- Direct object pronouns
- Indirect object pronouns
- Double object pronouns
- Comparisons or superlatives of inequalities
- Passive voice con "se"
- Recognizing the tense of verbs given
- Stem-changing verbs
- Present subjunctive
- Command identification (formal & familiar)
7. Written section:
- Definitions
- Commands: formal (Ud./Uds.) and informal (tú) formation. Affirmative and Negative. Pronoun placement.
- Questions to answer in Spanish
- Sentences to translate from English to Spanish
- Conjugations of verbs in the Present, Preterite, Imperfect, Future, Conditional, Present Perfect and Present Subjunctive.
Study the following verbs in all the tenses: cortar, meter, escribir, cerrar,
pedir, dormirse, jugar, venir, conducir, marcar, pagar, cruzar, ir, traer, decir, poner, andar, saber, ser, dar.